Soft Forum Progress Report, June 2019: Building transparent and traceable soy supply chains in Brazil’s Cerrado region About the Soft Commodities Forum

About the Soft Commodities Forum: The Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) is a global platform for leading soft commodities companies, convened by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) for the purpose of advancing collective action around common sustainability challenges. The SCF is made up of WBCSD member companies who share a vision of ensuring sustainable agriculture supply chains and working in partnership with government, producers, consumers and civil society to create a safer, more sustainable food system. The SCF is fully compliant with laws, including antitrust, which prevent any kind of arrangement or sharing of information that would reduce competition on price or on any other parameter of competition. The SCF consists of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge, , COFCO International, Agriculture and Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC). It is expected that other WBCSD members will join the SCF as its work expands.

2 About the June 2019 Report

About the June 2019 Report: Why does this report matter? The SCF members have committed to a common framework for reporting By prioritizing 25 municipalities, SCF members are actively identifying and monitoring progress on transparent and traceable supply chains for where targeted interventions are needed to address native vegetation soy in Brazil’s Cerrado region. The SCF members will report progress every conversion to soy in the Cerrado. Identifying and reporting on percentages six months. This is the first time leading global traders are of soy sourced directly or indirectly is important to inform the type of working together in the soy sector on a pre-competitive project to address strategy that will be developed. When soy is sourced directly from farmers, sustainability risks they all share, but which no single company can resolve supply chains are more transparent, and engagement and monitoring can alone. reach production level. In the case of indirect sourcing, additional actors need to be engaged to improve traceability and implementation at the In the June 2019 reports, the SCF member companies report individually farm level. By focusing on the priority municipalities, SCF members will on the percentage of soy they source from the Cerrado relative to the total work together to protect native vegetation, supporting the adoption of Brazilian volume based on 2018 data (total Brazilian volume is defined as more sustainable production practices and engaging directly with 100 percent per company). They each report the percentage of soy within cooperatives, aggregators, and other third parties. the Cerrado that is sourced from 25 priority municipalities. Finally, they report the combined percentage of soy coming from the 25 priority The report was produced with the assistance of Proforest, the SCF municipalities, which is then divided into the percentage that is sourced technical partner, and with information provided by the Grupo de Trabalho directly from farmers and the percentage that is sourced indirectly from do Cerrado (GTC), also known as the Cerrado Working Group. aggregators, cooperatives and other third parties. Six reports have been produced, one by each SCF member company. The reports are identical apart from the percentages that are specific to each company as well as each company’s soy sustainability journey, which is shared at the end of each report.

3 Section 1

Background and Context Click

4 1.1 Background and context

Brazil’s Soy Sector Why focus on the Cerrado? Brazil is the second largest soybean producer in The Cerrado region of Brazil plays a significant While the Cerrado is less well-known than the the world, behind only the United States, with role globally for both people and nature, Amazon as a biodiversity hotspot, it is equally the soybean crop occupying an area of ​​35 million including climate change mitigation, important; Brazil has created official terrestrial hectares. In 2017-2018, total production biodiversity, and freshwater systems. It is also protected areas in 8.3 percent of the Cerrado.4 amounted to 119 million tons and the average an economic engine for local communities and a The Cerrado is home to over 4,800 species of yield of Brazilian soybeans was 3,394 kg per production region for exported agricultural plants and vertebrates found nowhere else on hectare.1 commodities. However, the extent and pace of the planet. The rainfall during the wet season is native vegetation loss resulting from agricultural vital for the region’s rivers, which provide Soy production is of significant economic expansion in the Cerrado poses a significant habitat for a total of 800 species of fish, nearly importance in Brazil. Soy has become the threat to these social, environmental and 200 of which are found only in the Cerrado.5 country’s most valuable export commodity, economic values. overtaking oil and mineral exports, with China Since the 1970s, agribusiness has been steadily (67 percent) and the EU (11 percent) as the The Cerrado is located in the highlands of expanding across the Cerrado biome, major export markets.2 Central Brazil and covers about 2 million km² or contributing to Brazil’s emergence as a global 21 percent of the Brazilian territory. It leader in agricultural commodity production. represents the second largest biome in South America after the Amazon.3 The total area is equivalent to the size of Germany, , England, Italy, and Spain combined.

5 1.2 Background and context

The Cerrado has the largest area of farm and There are at least 25.4 million hectares of where sustainability practices can be verified. By ranch land in Brazil, accounting for 88 Mha, or already converted land in the Cerrado that is reporting every six months, SCF members are 44 percent, of the total agricultural area. It suitable for agriculture, and improvements to committed to improving the transparency and produces about 40 percent of Brazil’s beef, 84 agricultural productivity are compatible with the traceability of their supply chains in the Cerrado, percent of its cotton, more than protection of forests and native vegetation, promoting better sustainability practices across 50 percent of its soybeans, and 44 percent of its providing the opportunity for more sustainable the region, and achieving measurable corn.6 Soy in the Cerrado covers 17.8 million production in the future.11 reductions in native vegetation conversion over hectares, representing 8 percent of the 204 time. million hectares of the Cerrado.7 The SCF member companies are also As a result of robust economic activity, nearly How SCF Members are participating in the GTC to develop common half of the biome’s native vegetation has been Protecting Native Vegetation definitions, to design appropriate financial lost.8 Under the Brazilian Forest Code, in incentives, and to outline actions which should addition to the permanent preservation of areas in the Cerrado be taken. The GTC was established by a multi- such as riparian buffers and other sensitive By gathering supply chain data and reporting at stakeholder coalition to develop terms of ecosystems, landowners in the Cerrado are regular intervals, SCF members are taking an agreement between producers, industry, required to maintain 20 to 35 percent of their consumer organizations and civil society, as well 9 important joint step toward better transparency properties as legal reserve. The conversion of and traceability of soy produced in the Cerrado. as an action plan for eradicating deforestation native vegetation has declined significantly in This applies, in particular, to soy purchased from and conversion of native vegetation in Brazil’s recent years – 2017 had the lowest conversion cooperatives, aggregators and other third Cerrado biome. rate in the region since 2000 while productivity 10 parties, which tends to be less traceable than grew over the same period. soy purchased directly from producers

6 Section 2

Priority Municipalities Click

7 2.1 Methodology for selecting the municipalities

The SCF members and Proforest worked to The following methodological approach was 4. Where potential for collective action is determine a methodology that would utilize the used to determine the 25 priority municipalities higher: From those municipalities, the 25 latest available data to determine municipalities that are the focus of SCF members’ June 2019 with largest area of soy planted in 2017 on in the Cerrado with high native vegetation reporting: areas of native vegetation converted after conversion to soy and where SCF members 2014 (in hectares) 16 and with higher could have the greatest positive impact. As part 1. Focus on Cerrado biome: From the 5,570 overlap of SCF members17 were selected. of December 2019 report, SCF members and municipalities in Brazil, those with their Proforest will develop a process and set of territory completely included within 12 criteria to update the list of priority Cerrado biome were selected. municipalities. 2. Where planting soy is a relevant land use For the June 2019 reports, the approach called type: From those municipalities, those with 13 for SCF members to account for the planted soy area in 2017 larger than municipalities within the Cerrado from which 5,000 hectares were selected. they source soy (either directly or indirectly) and 3. Where soy is driving conversion of native to collate this data to determine those vegetation: From those municipalities, the municipalities where at least two members are top 30 for soy planted in 201714 on areas of sourcing soy and it is evident that soy expansion native vegetation converted after 201415 has been driving recent native vegetation (in absolute number of hectares) were conversion. selected and ranked.

8 The prioritization criteria

5,570 municipalities in Brazil

Territory is 100% in Cerrado biome

Area planted with soy in 2017 was larger than 5,000 ha (IPAM-IBGE) A schematic to demonstrate how the prioritization methodology was applied to determine the 25 Top 30 for soy planted in 2017 priority municipalities. Full details of the (Agrosatelite) in areas of natural municipalities are listed in the Appendix. vegetation converted after 2014 (PRODES) in hectares

Higher conversion to soy AND higher overlap of SCF companies

25 Priority municipalities

9 2.2 About the priority municipalities

Based on the methodology presented, the SCF The total area of the 25 municipalities is State Number of SCF priority selected 25 municipalities in the Cerrado biome municipalities 17,789,098 ha, which is approximately the size as priorities for engaging, monitoring and of England or Florida, and accounts reporting. The map shows municipalities’ Maranhão 4 for 8.74 percent of Cerrado total area. Together, location and the table presents general the 25 municipalities planted 2,447,911 ha of 10 information on soy and native vegetation soy in 2017, which is conversion for each municipality. Piauí 4 7 percent of total soy planted in Brazil that year and represents almost 10 percent of soy 23 of the 25 municipalities are in the region Bahia 5 expansion from 2013 to 2017. known as MATOPIBA, which comprises the portion of the Cerrado biome in the Maranhão, Mato Grosso 2 Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia states. It is considered the greatest national agricultural frontier of the present time (currently, Matopiba corresponds to 12 percent of Brazil’s soy production).18 The other 2 municipalities are in Mato Grosso state, the largest soy producing state in Brazil (Mato Grosso state corresponds to more than 25 percent of Brazil’s soy production).19

10 The 25 priority municipalities

Municipality State Map location Municipality State Map location Balsas Maranhão A Sambaíba Maranhão N Baixa Grande do Ribeiro Piauí B Tocantins O Formosa do Rio Preto Bahia C Jaborandi Bahia P Uruçuí Piauí D Ribeiro Gonçalves Piauí Q Carolina Maranhão E Tocantins R Tocantins F Aparecida do Rio Negro Tocantins S Lagoa da Confusão Tocantins G Planalto da Serra Mato Grosso T Tocantins H Tocantins U Mirador Maranhão I Tocantins V Tocantins J São Desidério Bahia W Correntina Bahia K Currais Piauí X Riachão das Neves Bahia L Campos de Júlio Mato Grosso Y Tocantins M

11 2.3 Map of priority municipalities

Priority municipalities A Balsas MARANHÃO B Baixa Grande do Ribeiro C Formosa do Rio Preto BRAZIL I D Uruçuí PARÁ E Carolina CERRADO BIOME E PIAUÍ F Peixe A N Q D G Lagoa da Confusão J U H Porto Nacional B I Mirador X J Goiatins TOCANTINS K Correntina S L Riachão das Neves M H R M Pium V G C N Sambaíba MATO GROSSO O O Santa Rosa do Tocantins L F P Jaborandi BAHIA Q Ribeiro Gonçalves W R Mateiros

K S Aparecida do Rio Negro Y T Planalto da Serra P U Campos Lindos T GOIÁS V Monte do Carmo W São Desidério X Currais Y Campos de Júlio

12 Section 3

Company Data Click

13 Soy Sourcing Data

Soy volume sourced in Brazil Soy volume sourced in Cerrado Soy volume sourced in 25 priority municipalities in Cerrado

38.7% 18.0% 93.4% in Cerrado in 25 priority Direct municipalities

61.3% 82.0% 6.6% in other biomes in other Indirect municipalities

14 Section 4

Next Steps Click

15 Next Steps

The SCF members have committed to reporting every six months on These channels may include: the first 25 municipalities as well as additional municipalities identified as priorities for each reporting cycle. Over time, the SCF expects that • Mapping initiatives for potential partnerships in addressing soy- the rate of native vegetation conversion will diminish in the targeted driven native vegetation conversion, including continued municipalities as a result of concerted action and the adoption of collaboration with the GTC, as well as initiatives already under improved sustainable land management practices. implementation by SCF members such as landscape and jurisdictional approaches. The SCF members will work together to develop targeted interventions to support sustainable intensification and tackle native vegetation • Referring to the Accountability Framework for guidance on conversion in the priority municipalities, alongside and in collaboration consistent definitions, industry norms and good practices. with relevant local stakeholders. • Supporting financial incentives for landholders through Several complementary channels have already been identified and, in partnerships in the soy value chain and with financial institutions, the coming months, SCF members will determine where best to focus donors and funds. time and resources to achieve the greatest impact in improving • Building on SCF members’ individual commitments and current sustainable soy production in the Cerrado. activities to set goals and define strategies for collective action. Commitments can cover the avoidance of native vegetation conversion, protection of human rights, and performance against the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals.

16 Section 5

Archer Daniels Midland’s Click Soy Sustainability Journey

17 ADM Soy Sustainability Journey

On May 7, 2015 ADM announced its Commitment to No Deforestation In 2018, we took the next step to increase traceability through the use and to build traceable and transparent agricultural supply chains that of satellite monitoring technology. We began obtaining polygons (farm protect forests worldwide. The commitment included provisions maps) of our direct suppliers for the priority municipalities identified related to no deforestation, no expansion on peat and no exploitation for ADM by The Forest Trust. We continue to work with farmers to with a focus on our palm and soy supply chains. The no exploitation obtain polygons to further expand our database. Soy purchases which provisions were in line with ADM’s Commitment to Respect Human come direct from the farmer are fully traceable to the farm of origin. Rights, published in 2014, aimed at ensuring that our suppliers and their contractors respect workers’ rights and comply with all applicable Aligned with the Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) definition of priority local, national and international laws governing working conditions. municipalities, we have determined that less than 0.5% of our total soy Both commitments include strict prohibitions against the use of child supply in Brazil comes from indirect sources in those municipalities. labor, forced labor and bonded labor, and include several other This gives us a high level of transparency and ability to monitor for land guidelines to protect workers and communities from exploitation. use change. Information on our monitoring and verification and supply chain transformation efforts can be found in our semi-annual progress Since that time, ADM has been working intensively on implementing reports published at the commitment in our soy supply chain in South America. As part of https://www.adm.com/sustainability/sustainabilityprogress- our soy sustainability journey, we have conducted a comprehensive tracker/soy/progress. collection of procurement data to determine volumes by country and by supplier type back to 2014. We then progressed to municipality level traceability.

18 Soy Progress Report Action Plan: Milestones and Status

Nº Topic Milestones Status

1 Traceability Collect digital farm boundaries (polygons) of direct suppliers in: a) Priority municipalities in MATOPIBA. a) 100% complete in H1 2018 b) Paraguay b) 30% complete in H2 2018 c) Mato Grosso, Brazil c) 90% complete in H2 2018

2 Monitoring and Geospatial land conversion/ soy planting monitoring Verification a) Proactively track and understand the origin of soy. a) 100% complete for H1 2018 polygons. b) Verify any grievances or complaints within our soy supply chainPublicly post the b) Ongoing - Please check here. outcome in the Grievances and Resolutions log.

3 Supplier Engagement a) Engage with suppliers/farmers within the municipalities being monitored. a) Ongoing communication and Transformation b) Require CAR from direct suppliers in Brazil as part of all new pre-financing b) Complete contracts.* c) Communicate No Exploitation/Human Rights Policy to all direct soy suppliers in c) Ongoing communication Brazil. d) Communicate/explain the No Deforestation Policy to suppliers in critical areas d) Ongoing communication. Direct engagement when where deforestation is still an issue. grievances or non compliance occurs. e) Continue participating in multistakeholder initiatives such as the SCF, CWG, PNUD´s e) Ongoing Matopiba Coalition. f) Using TNC’s Phase I report, open dialogue with supplier groups in Bahia (Brazil) and f) 3rd party was hired to engage suppliers who were begin implementing transformation plans for them. assessed in phase I. g) Continue efforts with A Todo Pulmon in Paraguay to support grower efforts to g) A Todo Pulmon visited over 100 suppliers´ farms to recover and improve forested areas. assess the conditions of their forested areas.

19 Section 6

Acknowledgements Click

20 Acknowledgements The SCF would like to thank Proforest and Grupo de Trabalho do Cerrado for their support.

About Proforest About the Grupo de Trabalho do Cerrado (GTC) Proforest is a leading non-profit group that supports companies, The shared objective of the GTC is to ‘Eradicate, in the shortest timeframe governments and other organizations to implement their commitments to possible, deforestation in the Cerrado Biome, reconciling the production of soy the responsible production and sourcing of agricultural commodities and with environmental, economic and social interests’, where deforestation forest products, such as palm oil, soy, sugar, beef, timber, and others. Five (‘desmatamento’) is defined by the GTC as the conversion of native vegetation. offices in four continents form the group (UK, Malaysia, Brazil, Ghana, and Colombia). Through a combination of programs and consultancy services, The organizations who are members of the GTC are: Proforest provides technical support, capacity building, solution • Industry Members: Abiove, ADM, Amaggi, ANEC, Bunge, Cargill, Cofco, development and process facilitation. Glencore, Louis Dreyfus Company As technical partners of the Soft Commodities Forum, Proforest is • Civil Society Members: Earth Innovation Institute, Imaflora, IPAM, TNC, providing advisory support and technical inputs for the development of a WWF common monitoring and reporting framework, also ensuring there are links to wider sustainability and deforestations discussions. As part of this • Producer Organizations: Sociedade Rural Brasileira process, Proforest is part of a confidentiality agreement to maintain compliance with antitrust laws. • Governmental and Financial Institutions: Banco do Brasil, INPE, MAPA, MMA, Serviço Florestal • Consumer Goods: Carrefour, Walmart

21 References and footnotes

1. Brazil Soy Statistics 2019, Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento, 2019 (Conab) https://www.conab.gov.br/info- 15. Soy planted area in Cerrado biome in 2017, shapefile, developed by Agrosatelite, obtained through GTC (Cerrado agro/safras Working Group) via SCF members that have access to the database. The dataset used was dated April 2019.

2. Brazil Soy Export Analysis, May 2019, Associação Brasileira das Indústrias de Óleos Vegetais (ABIOVE) 16. Area of native vegetation converted (ha) per municipality 2014-2017, shapefile, PRODES Cerrado, INPE – National Institute for Space Research, http://www.obt.inpe.br/cerrado/downloads.html 3. 1/06/2019 Word Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) website, http://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/where_we_work/cerrado/ 17. To identify overlap of SCF members in the municipalities, each SCF member indicated confidentially to Proforest and WBCSD if they sourced soy from direct or indirect suppliers registered in each of the 30 municipalities in 2018. 4. Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), “Ecosystem Profile: Cerrado Biodiversity Hotspot,” April 2016 Updated Proforest compiled the information and used the results to identify municipalities with highest overlap of SCF February 2017. https://www.cepf.net/sites/default/files/cerrado-ecosystem-profile-en-updated.pdf members (i.e. where there were 5 or 6 SCF companies present), which were prioritized. Then the five municipalities with lowest conversion of native vegetation to soy from the remaining list were removed, resulting in a total of 25 5. Françoso, R. D., Brandão, R., Nogueira, C. C., Salmona, Y. B., Machado, R. B., and Colli, G. R. 2015. Habitat loss and the municipalities.. effectiveness of protected areas in the Cerrado Biodiversity Hotspot. Natureza Conservação 13(1):35–40. doi:10.1016/j.ncon.2015.04.001 18. https://www.inputbrasil.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/CERRADO-CAMINHOS-PARA-OCUPACAO-TERRITORIAL- SUSTENTAVEL-EXPANS%C3%83O-DA-SOJA-FINAL.pdf 6. Geospatial Analysis of the Soy Dynamic in Cerrado Biome 2014-2017, GTC Cerrado Taskforce 19. https://sidra.ibge.gov.br/home/lspa/brasil 7. Ibid

8. 15/5/2019 Fact Sheet Cerrado Study, Geospatial Analysis of Soy Dynamics in the Biome, Study commissioned by Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE), in partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) using Agrosatélite

9. Rene Beuchle et al., “Land Cover Changes in the Brazilian Cerrado and Caatinga Biomes from 1990 to 2010 Based on a Systemic Remote Sensing Sampling Approach,” Applied Geography 58 (2015): 116–127.

10. Geospatial Analysis of the Soy Dynamic in Cerrado Biome 2014-2017, GTC Cerrado Taskforce

11. 1/06/2019 Word Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) website https://www.wwf.org.br/informacoes/english/?61582/Twenty-three-Global-Companies-Pledge-to-Helping-Tackle-Soy- Driven-Deforestation-in-Brazils-Cerrado

12.Municipalities boundaries, official data (shapefile), IBGE, 2015 – Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ftp://geoftp.ibge.gov.br/organizacao_do_territorio/malhas_territoriais/malhas_municipais/municipio_2015/Brasil/BR/

13. Cerrado biome boundaries, shapefile: Mapbiomas, adapted from IBGE, 2016 http://mapbiomas.org/pages/database/reference_maps

14. Soy planted area (ha) per municipality in 2017 table: Agricultural Municipal Production (IPAM-IBGE) https://sidra.ibge.gov.br/pesquisa/pam/tabelas

22 Appendix

Additional information on the 25 priority municipalities

Municipality State Name Geocode Total Soy Area Soy Area Planted on Number of SCF Municipality State Name Geocode Total Soy Area Soy Area Planted on Number of SCF Name Planted in 2017 Converted Native Members Name Planted in 2017 Converted Native Members (Hectares) Vegetation in 2017 Sourcing Soy (Hectares) Vegetation in 2017 Sourcing Soy (Hectares) (Directly or (Hectares) (Directly or Indirectly) Indirectly)

Balsas Maranhão 2101400 187,144.00 4 Pium Tocantins 1717503 10,378.00 4 8,743.19 2,824.45 Baixa Grande Piauí 2201150 179,358.00 4 Sambaíba Maranhão 2109700 57,445.00 4 do Ribeiro 8,495.01 2,785.77 Formosa do Rio Santa Rosa do Bahia 2911105 405,583.00 4 Tocantins 1718907 36,000.00 4 Preto 7,908.73 Tocantins 2,699.53 Jaborandi Bahia 2917359 94,350.00 4 Uruçuí Piauí 2211209 134,869.00 4 2,558.73 7,488.29 Ribeiro Piauí 2208908 77,365.00 3 Carolina Maranhão 2102804 25,00.00 3 Gonçalves 2,354.11 4,692.89 Mateiros Tocantins 1712702 43,000.00 4 2,303.56 Peixe Tocantins 1716604 50,000.0 4 3,878.19 Aparecida do Tocantins 1701101 21,000.00 4 Lagoa da Rio Negro 2,208.12 Tocantins 1711902 40,128.00 4 Confusão 3,547.40 Planalto da Mato Grosso 5106455 20,000.00 5 Serra 2,061.69 Porto Nacional Tocantins 1718204 41,000.00 4 3,337.56 Campos Lindos Tocantins 1703842 40,500.00 4 2,033.47 Mirador Maranhão 2106706 11,100.00 3 Monte do 3,310.03 Tocantins 1713601 31,500.00 4 Carmo 2,032.39 Goiatins Tocantins 1709005 15,700.00 3 3,180.76 São Desidério Bahia 2928901 394,016.00 4 1,977.57 Correntina Bahia 2909307 172,200.00 4 Currais Piauí 2203230 43,295.00 3 3,120.94 1,966.26 Riachão das Campos de Bahia 2926202 120,200.00 4 Mato Grosso 5102686 196,780.00 6 Neves 3,004.22 Júlio 1,734.17

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